DRIVE (Day 6)

We grabbed some breakfast at the hotel then set off for a full day of driving.

I thought there was a bridge at Port Aransas that would pop us right back on the highway. Nope. It was only a ferry. So we had to drive all the way back down to the JFK Memorial Causeway on the south side of Corpus Christi.

(left photo) San Antonio

Wind turbines and ... oil pumps

Natural gas and ... oil well

Silo and ... farm road

We arrived in Lubbock and checked into our motel. Our shoes were still sopping wet from the underwater parking lot at Mustang State Park the day before, so we set them outside to dry for a while. After a while, it looked as if a storm was moving in, so I brought my shoes inside. Sean decided to leave his out while we headed into town to grab some dinner. (yes indeed, more ominous foreshadowing)

We ate at the Copper Caboose sports bar, where each table came with its own tv.

When we returned to our motel room, Sean's shoes had vanished. His take was that if someone needed old, heavily-worn, sopping shoes THAT badly, they should have them.

After a while, the storm unleashed! We were briefly concerned that the water on the ground would get so high that it might start seeping into the room. Fortunately the worst that happened was that lightning knocked out the cable tv.

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